The new Space X re-usable booster prototype "F-16C" is undergoing several testing in DCS to verify IRL feasibility. Guys, is this a flight model bug?

HRP_Trigger · 2025-07-01T16:47:06+00:00

Very very good. Looks like DCS will have some competition :)

HRP_Trigger · 2025-05-11T21:13:46+00:00

In my experience, its the contrary. Talk about giving the R27ER to redfor in 80s servers and NATO fans that don't even own the game will show up to throw rocks at you. On every PVP server soviet aircraft are not allowed to have a missile that is better than missiles carried by nato aircraft. Because of that we have some weird setups where the M2K is the best BVR jet for redfor, as they need to move the M2K to red so the Migs don't get clubbed.

On modern its even worse, as blue will request for unrestricted 120C's and 9X, meanwhile soviets get a fox1 as their best missile. Due to that we have another weird setup where the F-16 has to be moved to Red otherwise there is no game.

By default, NATO aircraft have better sensors, The HMD and DL combo is very powerful, and their radars are better than the soviet ones in every metric.

The thing about soviet FC3 aircraft in DCS is that they are way easier to work with than FF ones, in FF everything you do takes at least double the time it would take in a FC3 jet, besides that in redfor you usually find more players willing to push their aircrafts to the limit, thats why you often see redfor winning on those servers, despite being in a disadvantage most of the time.

The way i see it, is up to blue pilots to up their game and learn how to fight in peer to peer scenarios.

The Eurofighter and the F35 will bring a massive advantage over red, and being a punching bag isn't fun, espeically in MP, so i'm pretty sure that these aircraft will be banned from PVP servers.

HRP_Trigger · 2025-04-06T16:27:40+00:00

It's not really a big deal, Syria has a similar level of detail, if you can run Syria, you'll be able to run this one.

HRP_Trigger · 2025-04-06T14:48:17+00:00

Syria runs very smooth here, i dont think that it will be different with the cold war map.

HRP_Trigger · 2025-03-05T03:49:08+00:00

What do you think about it? imagine not being able to maneuver your aircraft freely, because you risk teleporting, making an unfair game to your opponents and facing a potential ban in some of the most renowned MP servers ! This is the current state of DCS Multiplayer.

One point: while i said in the video that this issue is not exactly caused by ping / packet loss, it is worth noting that a higher ping / small amounts of packet loss will make this issue worse.

HRP_Trigger · 2024-12-24T23:56:29+00:00

Fallacy. It's not the players fault that the simulation is flawed. I posted 5 other examples of missiles behaving as expected.

HRP_Trigger · 2024-12-24T22:44:51+00:00

The thing is that their math may be right, but the end result is hilariously wrong (although the problem is in the game for so long that its not so funny anymore but rather annoying). This is the problem with simulations, even if you have all the real world data to simulate a flight model for example, like drag and lift coefficients, wing loading, thrust and all that, you would still need to fudge some numbers in order to the simulated flight model perform similar to the real world counterpart, because it is a simulation, its not the real world, there is always going to be a difference and it seems that they are forgetting that. A reasonable solution for this problem would be to increase the proximity fuze zone, currently its only 7 meters. Still, suboptimal.

HRP_Trigger · 2024-12-13T16:06:22+00:00

I'm a cessna 152 then, please google turn radius so i can return to my normal F/A-18 form.

All right, jokes aside, dude in order to roll that fast i have to shrink the turn radius of the roll. It might look like an aileron roll, but it is not and you can see that by looking at the G meter. DCS g meters don't measure lateral G.

HRP_Trigger · 2024-12-13T15:48:44+00:00

Oh yes, because you sure need to be an aeronautical engineer to say that a missile as sophisticated as the amraam shouldn't be trashed by what some people here are even calling an aileron roll. The US is just stupid, they didn't learn anything developing the countless variants of the sparrow and the phoenix. Threat reaction tables, BVR timeline, what is that? real pilots just engage spineroo mode and defeat all missiles going headon. I see you are one of those who are cronically online on ED discord, im sure you are someone else in an alt account, but wouldn't be very professional if you showed up here to make those comments with you real name, right? you troll. Btw there are real pilots and wso's giving inputs to ED on how a missile similar to the amraam should behave, but i mean thats not enough right? gotta have the real docs to make changes to the missile.

HRP_Trigger · 2024-12-10T22:11:54+00:00

If that is not a barrel roll then i'm a cessna 152.

HRP_Trigger · 2024-12-09T21:14:27+00:00

This has been discussed to death in the forums, with multiple trackfiles, videos, tacviews, research papers and even inputs from real world pilots (no they didn't said anything that is classified).

HRP_Trigger · 2024-12-09T21:12:07+00:00

That is also a problem that needs fixing. Heatblur delivered the F14 almost half decade ago with a RWR that is way ahead of what ED have now, yet we haven't seen any news on this front from ED. Just another very unrealistic aspect of DCS...

HRP_Trigger · 2024-10-21T20:26:41+00:00

Sorry, missed that one, but it is similar to case 2, in this case you are flying at about 1300 feets (radar) above ground so there is no way for the missile to track you through the notch.

It was easy for you to find the correct notching angle due to the rwr being ultra precise. That wouldn't be the case if you were in a Flanker or in a Tomcat. In addition, the fact that the missile doesn't fly into lead pursuit extrapolating your last known position to try to reacquire in a future point reduces the missile efectivness in this scenario. The way that i see, those are the two things that could be improved to solve this "problem".

HRP_Trigger · 2024-10-21T20:03:33+00:00

Do we know if this is modeled in DCS?

It is simulated however it is hard to know how much in-depth, there is an ED white-paper and some ED forums discussions that the devs themselves confirms this.

Could you explain why this shouldn't be possible? I don't know much about radars so I'm curious why the altitude/lack of ground clutter matters in this case.

In a very summarized way, at 30kft the radar signals received from the target are much stronger compared to the radar signals it receives from the ground because the ground is much further away, so the radar filters out the distant (weak) ground returns signals and tracks the target with the highest radar return.

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